Link: https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-family-corruption-snap-cuts

Not Above the Law said that, in addition to groceries for 1.3 million people for a year, the $2.9 billion could buy “more than 600 million free school lunches, or three months of groceries for the 5.2 million people who lost SNAP benefits.”

In addition to the nearly $3 billion the report says Trump’s family pocketed, the coalition noted “companies backed by Trump’s sons have collected $3.2 billion in federal funds, including a fast-tracked $620 million Pentagon loan” to a business in which Donald Trump Jr. invested.

americans love this.

The fuck I do.

Opponents of welfare keep saying 'we can't have those things because where is the money going to come from?' While they just keep doing this for 50 years.

It is astonishing just how long this has been happening. The new deal and postwar liberal consensus didn't last nearly as long, yet they are widely held as 'the good old days' that people want to return to while actively empowering people who want to fully dismantle what is still left of that old system.